Two Republican candidates for governor are leading a crowded field in the polls, so what do Democrats do? Cancel a planned debate. Just hours before it was scheduled to...
American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp confirmed that Sen. John Cornyn of Texas has been invited to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Leaders in Iran sent a Tuesday letter to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) confirming that “non-hostile vessels” would be permitted to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The choke point carries a fifth of the world’s oil per day. But few ships have made the journey through the single passageway from the Persian Gulf to...
EXPORT, Pennsylvania — When Ben Fallon was growing up in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, all he ever wanted to do was play football. Fallon was in fourth grade, and in Western Pennsylvania, pretty much every boy wants to play football. However, his parents had some strong feelings about that sport. “My parents wouldn’t let me play […]
To avoid admitting “tragically unprepared” kids, universities should acknowledge “test-optional admissions” has been a “failure," said Ben Sasse at The Wall Street Journal.
If the economy is truly as abysmal as the pundit class claims it is, consumers evidently have not yet gotten the memo. Half of all holiday shoppers told PayPal that they would finance their purchases with “buy now, pay later” schemes, spending over $10 billion in November. According to Adobe, total holiday spending financed by […]
WILL TRUMP’S REVENGE CAMPAIGN BACKFIRE? A grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia, has refused to reindict New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of mortgage fraud. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is considering whether to indict Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), also for mortgage fraud, and whether to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey […]
Gaza-focused nonprofit organizations and the United Nations are infested with terrorist collaborators and sympathizers, perpetuating the conflict in Gaza that necessitates more aid to be funneled through those organizations. Internal Hamas security documents acquired by Israel detail how the terrorist group planted operatives inside U.N.-affiliated nonprofit organizations. Hamas requires that aid groups put loyalists in […]
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze reacted with anger to my latest article in the Washington Examiner this week. That article considered the Georgian government’s possible use of a World War I-era chemical agent during last year’s protest crackdowns. Why did this strike such a sensitive nerve in Tbilisi? The primary answer is that it appeared in a conservative U.S. media outlet. […]
President Donald Trump is reviving California‘s water wars, which serves as a reminder that California Democrats would rather prioritize the needs of fish over the needs of farmers and the people who rely on them for food. The Trump administration announced a new plan to move water south from Northern California to farmers in the Central Valley, […]
Countries that were once imprisoned by Soviet tyranny — think Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, not to mention Ukraine — tend to be more conservative and nationalist than countries where peoples have less first-hand experience of unbridled socialism. For the same reason, people from that once benighted region of the world who emigrated to […]
President Donald Trump’s foremost accomplishment during his first term was breaking the decadeslong bipartisan consensus that Beijing’s threats were only slight irritants amid the far greater opportunity offered by China’s economy. That shift endured into the Biden administration. Today, however, Trump seems determined to reverse course. Trump is increasingly replacing a China policy rooted in […]
Along with gold and silver, the price of copper is soaring. But unlike the two precious metals, copper prices are rising for economic reasons, not political. Since the beginning of the year, the supply and demand picture for copper has tightened significantly. Supply has declined because of disruptions at the Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia, the second largest in […]
